This special issue presents and discusses recent developments aimed at deploying disciplines within Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Technologies in current engineering curricula. The papers here included have been selected from those presented to the Especial Symposium of identical title, during the 24th University Educational Innovation Congress on Technical Education (XXIV CUIEET), held in Cadiz (Spain) in September 2014. These cover topics related with new trends, experiences, methodologies and case studies, as well as the use of virtual tools and environments to help teaching and learning in different areas of Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Technologies.